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Re:GitHub Copilot by runawaybottle on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @06:14PM (#27682469)
I think you have another thing coming. Think about what really got abstracted away. The super hard parts like scaling and infrastructure (aws), the rendering engines in React, all the networking stuff that’s hidden in your server (dare you to deal with tcp packets), that’s the stuff that goes away.

We can automate the mundane but that’s usually the stuff that requires creativity, so the automated stuff becomes uninteresting in that realm. People will seek crafted experiences.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:25PM (#27684509)
It would be funny if after the AI automates away "all the boring stuff" we're left with the godawful job of writing tests to make sure the AI got it right.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by islon on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:20AM (#27687568)
I think it'll be much more likely that the AI writes the tests (the boring stuff) for the buggy code I write.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:54AM (#27687879)
I can see the AI suggesting and fixing syntax in the tests. Determining their semantics, not without true AGI.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by ticviking on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:55PM (#27684365)
I'm not sure that all of that has really gone away.

It's just concentrated into the hands of a very few super specialists, it's much harder to get to their level but their work is much much more important.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by chokma on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:10AM (#27686169)
True, and if the specialists retire, there may be some parts that no one understands properly anymore.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko / Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow

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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:24PM (#27684499)
Better yet -- the jobs of those specialists got better, and the people who would have done similar work did not end up unemployed, they just do some other kind of programming.
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